Gimme Shelter
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| Song by The Rolling Stones featuring Merry Clayton from the album Let It Bleed | |||||||||
| Released | 5 December 1969 | ||||||||
| Recorded | 23 February and 2 November 1969 | ||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock,blues rock, psychedelic rock, soul | ||||||||
| Length | 4:37 | ||||||||
| Label | Decca Records/ABKCO | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Miller | ||||||||
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| Single by Grand Funk Railroad | ||||
| from the album Survival | ||||
| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 6:29 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
| Producer(s) | Terry Knight | |||
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| Single by Patti Smith | ||||
| from the album Twelve | ||||
| Released | 2007 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:32 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
| Producer(s) | Patti Smith | |||
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"Gimme Shelter" is a song by the Rolling Stones. It first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1969 album Let It Bleed. Although the first word was spelled "Gimmie" on that album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made "Gimme" the customary spelling. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, said of it, "The Stones have never done anything better."
The recording features Richards playing in his new open tuning;
The recording also features powerful vocals by Merry Clayton, recorded at a last-minute late-night recording session during the mixing phase, arranged by her friend and record producer Jack Nitzsche.Lisa Fischer was later recruited to perform the song during their concerts.
"Gimme Shelter" was written by the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the band's primary songwriting team. Richards began working on the song's signature opening riff in London whilst Jagger was away filming Performance. As released, the song begins with Richards performing a guitar intro, soon joined by Jagger's harmonica and subsequent lead vocal. Of Let It Bleed's bleak world view, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone:
"Well, it's a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn't like World War II, and it wasn't like Korea, and it wasn't like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn't like it. People objected, and people didn't want to fight it..." As for the song itself, he concluded, "That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole record's like that."
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